sched/fair: Do not re-read ->h_load_next during hierarchical load calculation
A NULL pointer dereference bug was reported on a distribution kernel but
the same issue should be present on mainline kernel. It occured on s390
but should not be arch-specific. A partial oops looks like:
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
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Call Trace:
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try_to_wake_up+0xfc/0x450
vhost_poll_wakeup+0x3a/0x50 [vhost]
__wake_up_common+0xbc/0x178
__wake_up_common_lock+0x9e/0x160
__wake_up_sync_key+0x4e/0x60
sock_def_readable+0x5e/0x98
The bug hits any time between 1 hour to 3 days. The dereference occurs
in update_cfs_rq_h_load when accumulating h_load. The problem is that
cfq_rq->h_load_next is not protected by any locking and can be updated
by parallel calls to task_h_load. Depending on the compiler, code may be
generated that re-reads cfq_rq->h_load_next after the check for NULL and
then oops when reading se->avg.load_avg. The dissassembly showed t...
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